Art Room Advocate

Our Katy ISD Online Art Gallery is officially published! Currently the work featured on the website are selected Spring Art Show winners that also had the appropriate permissions. The work will be replaced in the Fall and Spring with selected works from the ESC art display. Feel free to share with your parents, school, and community.

Katy ISD Online Art Gallery

Katy ISD Fine Arts is offering 26 art workshops this summer with the help of our amazingly talented teachers. We have array of workshops to choose from for every level art teacher. In classroom courses will be offered June 17, 18, 19, July 9, 10, 11 with a few off-site options on alternate dates.

Registration opened April 11th in Eduphoria.

Next year we will be utilizing Microsoft Teams as a collaborative tool with our new PLC groups. If you are unfamiliar with MS Teams the district has 4 asynchronous trainings available for teachers. I was told by the instructor that you can enroll in any of the sessions (elementary or secondary) despite your grade level. They will also count toward your flex days.

Here are the links to the available sessions (the elementary is 2 credit hours and the secondary is 3 credit hours)

Elementary MS Teams eCourse

Secondary MS Teams eCourse - 6/3-6/14

Secondary MS Teams eCourse - 6/17-6/28

Secondary MS Teams eCourse - 7/8-7/19

Course Description: Fine arts teachers have enough to juggle. Let technology support you in ways you never dreamed of! Attend this training to learn tips and creative ways to use Canvas and additional software in your Theater, Band, Orchestra, Choir, or Art classroom. This session is updated for 2024 to integrate the newest features available for your classrooms, including Adobe Creative Cloud Express, Nearpod, New Quizzes and more!

6/6 8:30 - 10:30 - OTHS

7/18 8:30 - 10:30 - OTHS

• 8/5/2024 & 8/6/2024 - Paetow High School

Check your mailbox before you leave for summer!

We will have a new Visual Arts PLC and Teacher Support structure for the upcoming school year. This innovative framework is designed to provide comprehensive support and foster collaboration among both elementary and secondary teachers. Alongside this new structure will come changes and enhancements to our current PLC teams, presenting fresh leadership opportunities.

Key highlights:

• PLCs will center on fostering collaboration and enhancing curriculum
• Teachers will have the flexibility to select professional development support tailored to their experience level and specific needs.
• Each PLC group will have a designated lead
• 5 for Elementary
• 3 for Junior High (including 1 8th gr HS Art 1)
• 3 for High School (1 HS Art 1, 1 2D, 1 3D)

Susan Chiboroski is serving as one of the Co-chairs and is overseeing Walk Up Workshops. Please consider signing up to present at this year's conference.

Criteria for a Walk-up Workshop

· Workshop to be presented at a designated walk-up workshop area.

· 45-minute “flex flow” session

· Demonstration format

· Demonstration should be 20 minutes long (approximately) and could be repeated

· Audience of 12 – 15 or more people (some standing)

· No use of technology

· Multi-level/all-level lesson

· Handouts to be accessible by email, TAEA app or website

· Presenter has examples of the process at the various stages of the assignment

Are you interested and have an idea for a workshop? If so, click here to submit your Walk-up Workshop proposal.

• If you can help with hanging the artwork (7/16) or taking down (7/21) please let me know! 🐶

THANK YOU to Katherine Morris for being an amazing partner and friend my past 5 years at Golbow! Your dedication to the arts is inspiring. I see your hard work and passion every single day! It has truly been an honor to work and learn from such a cool person! - Martin Robles

I really struggle with coming up with new TTESS Goals and a SLO each year for elementary. We are all so busy and don't have much time to really think about them. Could we have a session on Goals/SLO for a PD or maybe a topic in a PLC meeting? There are plans to have goal setting information presented at back to school and in September, stay tuned.

For Elementary- Can the schools that have one art teacher submit fewer pieces for the HLS &R art show and the KISD Spring Art Show. It doesn't seem right that most teachers have to submit 6 each except one teacher campus' have to submit 12 by themselves for each show. For HLSR Katy ISD gets a certain number of entries each year and those are divided up between campuses. If a campus cannot use all of their entries we already have a system set up for the teacher/campus to inform Fine Arts before a certain date and those unuse entries are redistributed to a campus who want them. We always have campuses asking for more entries that will use them. For Spring Art Show the discussion has begun to have elementary artwork allotment be per teacher and not per campus, and as our show is continuously growing I do believe we may move in that direction next year.

Thank you to everyone who has uploaded photos and information to the Google Form! If you campus has not responded please have one art teacher fill out this Google Form. This information will be used to determine the age and condition of our district kilns. If you do not provide this information then your campus could be delayed in receiving any kiln repairs.

Campuses I need kiln information ASAP:

Mayde Creek EL

McRoberts

Rhoads

Alexander

Creech

McElwain

Nottingham

Randolph

West Memorial EL

Rylander

Mayde Creek JH

Cinco Ranch HS

To facilitate ongoing communication, I have established a Feedback Form which you can access at any time. A link to this form will also be included in my email signature. Feel free to use this form to ask questions, offer suggestions, share what’s going on in your classroom/campus, schedule a visit, or submit recognitions for inclusion in our newsletter. Rest assured, the form does not collect email addresses, so unless you provide your name, submission will remain anonymous. As always, you can reach out to me directly via email, text, phone, or Teams chat. -Laura S.